Is the absence of minerals in our food making us sick?

“In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return”. Genesis 3:19

No! This article is not about death but about life and minerals, the fuel that helps drive it!

We know where we are going, but I’m sure most of us don’t want to get there too soon. In fact, we would like to postpone it as long as we can by caring for our health and keeping check of our social behaviour. That’s why the significance of our origin has taken my interest and is the subject of this article.

From dust you are……? Have you ever taken the time to discover what makes our bodies tick? Our cells function? It’s quite a fascinating subject. It`s drummed into us from young to eat up our vegetables because they contain lots of vitamins that will help us maintain our health, yet I can’t remember anyone telling me to eat up my vegetables because they contained lots of minerals.

Minerals I have discovered are just as important as vitamins, if not more. They were present in abundance in the ground when this earth was formed, so if we originated from the soil, it stands to reason that we are part of that same make-up. Therefore, we need our daily essential vitamins and minerals. They are important nutrients for good health.

Centuries ago our ancestors learned to grow their own crops in and around the flood area of their rivers. Good examples of this are the Nile in Egypt and the Ganges in India. Why? It was because Minerals were washed down from the surrounding mountains into those rivers. During the rainy seasons, the banks were flooded, dropping rich mineral deposits from those flood waters. The result, crops rich in mineral content. Nutritionists now recognise the important role minerals play in the function of all our bio-systems. In fact, they are crucial for optimal health.

A quote from Dr. Paul Barney in his book "Doctors Guide To Natural Medicine", page eleven states, "…commercial farming practices have severely depleted our soils of vital minerals especially trace minerals. If we want to take certain minerals into our bodies, we had better turn to good supplements. If we only needed nitrogen and potassium to survive, our current supply of artificially fertilized, farm-grown produce would do nicely. Trace mineral supplements can keep us supplied with these important minerals."

That book was published in 1998 and since then, 9 years on, nothing much has changed. Around 60 different ailments, if not more, are known to be directly linked to a mineral deficiency. Heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, birth defects, mental health problems, arthritis, osteoporosis, to name a few can be traced back to a lack of one or several minerals and trace minerals in the diet.

Minerals are indispensable in the processes going on in the human body. If there are none in the soil, there are none in the crops. If there are none in the crops, then they won`t be in us either.

Never in a blue moon will fertilizers replace them, and so our health ultimately suffers. What will you do about it?

Gem

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